Interesting websites:
Towel Day - 05/25/2002 - A tribute to Douglas Adams
http://www.towelday.org/
Department of Consumer Affairs
Bureau of Automotive Repair / Smog Check
http://www.smogcheck.ca.gov/stdhome.asp
Punch and Brodie (as in Leo Brodie of "Starting Forth" fame)
Puppets for company meetings, events, and videos
http://www.punchandbrodie.com/
Free-Energy Solutions
ElectroHydroDymanics
http://jnaudin.free.fr/
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Einstein
Gary F. Moring
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0028631803/ref=pd_sxp_f/104-5920748-2591944
Internet Programming (Book and Disk)
Kris A. Jamsa and Ken Cope
Publisher: Jamsa Press
ISBN: 1884133126
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1884133126/qid%3D1022696091/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/103-0899915-6694230
Advanced Circuits
$33 prototypes in 5 days
http://www.4pcb.com/
ProCAD PowerStation 32 - $99 version
AutoRoute in their Mainframe
http://www.icadsys.com/index.asp
AM Research
ForthStamp prototypes uses Cygnal Integrated Products:
Sites I ambled across in our morning jaunt through the Internet:
Leo Brodie's side business - providing quality puppetry to corporate
environments.
http://www.punchandbrodie.com/
The internet Wayback machine (Mr. Jay Ward would be proud, I think)
http://www.archive.org/index.html
Interesting stuff, Getting at the Ports under Windows NT, uClinux -
Linux for MicroControllers, USB Info and much more
http://www.beyondlogic.org/
Smog check test history for your own or any other license number. Buying
a used car?
http://www.smogcheck.ca.gov/stdhome.asp
Bob Nash found a couple of interesting sites in his travels on the Information Superhighway
Build yourself a Glow Discharge Panel (from the folks at Advanced
Reduced Drag Aircraft project"
http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/s_gdp1.htm
More on Advanced Reduced Drag Aircraft and Naudin's MHD-propelled
aircraft
http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?q=%22Advanced+Reduced+Drag+Aircraf
t%22&pg=q&avkw=tgz&kl=XX
Kite Altitude Record Attempt:
http://www.total.net/~kite/
A high voltage motor in 5 minutes
http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/electro/electro4.html
Looking around for plasma stuff, I found "Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments" at http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/weird/microexp.html#coffee which seems to have been de-linked from it's mother page at http://www.amasci.com/ (I wonder why? Liability?) The AMASCI site has a vast plethora of interesting stuff so if you're short of free time, don't even start!
Al's new favorite processor - also an exhibitor at Sensors (see below)
http://www.cygnal.com
Prototype Circuit Boards
Al Mitchell recommends for quickies:
http://www.pcb4u.com/p3.asp
Procad (this is the CAD software Al discussed):
http://www.icadsys.com/index.asp
Untested PCB houses
Sierra Proto Express
http://www.protoexpress.com
Douglas Electronics Inc. - (PC house and CAD software supplier)
http://www.douglas.com
Advanced Prototyping Inc.
http://www.rpquote.com
Gerland
http://www.gerland.com
PCBpro
http://www.pcbpro.com
Lists at:
http://www.mentala.com/links.htm
http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?q=%2Bprototype+%2Blayers+%2Bprinted.circuit*&avkw=tgz&kl=XX
The SVFIG Contacts Page http://www.forth.org/svfig/contacts.html
- participate now by sending your info to Kevin Appert.
Links from the Sensors Expo and Conference
http://www.sensorsexpo.com/
(A complete index to the exhibitors is available on the site. If they would have had a clue it would have been a list of links) There was a LOT of wireless stuff at the show. See Crossbow and MicroStrain below. Second biggest trend (in my opinion) was MEMS.
A few of the exhibitors of personal interest::
Head-worn heads-up single-color VGA display
http://www.microvision.com/
Data Acquisition Systems
http://www.datataker.com/
Wireless Web Sensor Networks
http://www.microstrain.com
Virtual Corset
http://www.microstrain.com/vcorset.htm
Wireless sensor motes and MEMS stuff, Accelerometers, Gyros, Inertial
Sensors, Tilt, and so on.
http://www.xbow.com
Other meanderings:
PCI Extender to end all PCI Extenders
http://www.ultraviewcorp.com/
PCI Digital Oscilloscopes and More
http://www.linkinstruments.com/
RS232 to Ethernet to Dialup Modem
http://www.jkmicro.com/